https://nalar.dev/tags/file-management/ Recent content in File Management on Nalar Hugo en-us Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0700 https://nalar.dev/tech/why-files-with-numbers-in-their-names-can-sort-in-an-unexpected-order/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0700 https://nalar.dev/tech/why-files-with-numbers-in-their-names-can-sort-in-an-unexpected-order/ <p>You create files named <code>photo-1</code>, <code>photo-2</code>, and <code>photo-10</code>, then sort the folder by name. You expect 1, 2, 10. In some apps that is exactly what you get. In others, <code>photo-10</code> may appear before <code>photo-2</code>.</p> <p>Nothing is necessarily wrong with the files. The difference comes from what <strong>sorting by name</strong> means to the software doing the sorting. A program can compare filenames as text, or it can recognise runs of digits as numbers and compare their numerical values. Those two rules can produce different orders from the same names.</p>